SPOILERS!!!
Thoughts and notes about the books I am reading. My entries are not book reviews but just my personal thoughts and opinions about what I'm reading at the moment. The entries obviously contain SPOILERS.
The book starts in August 1880. Linda and Franz live in Okati where they have their school. Ōtaki is a town inthe North Island of New Zealand.
The novel starts in 1863. Karl, Ida and Mara are in Russell on the North Island as Karl is working as a mediator. It is here where they then buy their new home. Russell is a town in the Bay of Islands, in New Zealand's far north. It was the first permanent European settlement and seaport in New Zealand.